The Five Minute Journal uses proven principles of positive psychology to make you happier in 5 minutes a day with the guided gratitude journaling format
“There are plenty of benefits to journaling, whether you take time to write out your full thoughts or just spend a few minutes jotting down the things you're most grateful for every day or lessons you've learned. Five Minute Journal for the iPhone makes this process easy enough to do on the go.” — Lifehacker
BENEFITS OF PRACTICING GRATITUDE
Cultivating gratitude can positively impact all areas of your life—from personal growth and emotional intelligence to meaningful relationships and enhanced productivity. A lot of thought leaders practice gratitude (including Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Tim Ferris, and many others), as studies have found it improves health, has lasting positive effects on the brain, and is a key to mental wellbeing.
Practicing gratitude with the Five Minute Journal app brings you a more positive outlook on life and ability to notice wonderful things and capture the life-changing experiences. The key is consistency. With its thoughtful features and a structure to help you focus on what’s good, you will find The Five Minute Journal app to be a great way to start and end your day.
WHAT OUR COMMUNITY IS SAYING
“Not only do I love the simplicity in the design, but the fact that it takes only a minute to update the entries means this is something I’ll actually use. This app really gets you thinking about the positive things right before you start your day.”
FIVE MINUTE JOURNAL APP FEATURES
– Beautiful, Intuitive Journaling Experience: The Five Minute Journal app has been designed to capture the physical Five Minute Journal experience. Getting around the app is a breeze and adding entries is easy with a guided flow for both your morning and evening entries.
– Easy Journal Entry Navigation: Quickly cycle through previous entries by scrolling your timeline or by tapping on a specific date in calendar view.
– Guided Journaling Flow & Prompts: A new guided process to help you get the most from your gratitude journal experience.
– Reminders: Set daily notifications to keep up with a rewarding journaling habit.
– Timeline View: Access previous journal entries and view short daily excerpts. Tapping an entry leads to a full day review.
– Daily Quotes & Weekly Challenges: Receive daily inspiring quotes and weekly challenges, and share them across social media.
– Passcode Protection: Keep all your journal entries private with secure passcode, Face ID or Touch ID protection.
– Dark Mode: Use your journal in either light or dark mode, which is especially great for late night journaling.
– Compatible With Any Device or platform: Use it on iPhone app, iPad app and Apple Watch companion app.
– Track your mindful minutes in the Apple Health app with our HealthKit integration
– Streaks: Track your personal progress and get insights on positive changes in your life.
– Backup/Export: Easily backup your entries and export your treasured memories and media to PDF, HTML, Dropbox, and more. You can select a date range or export all.
PREMIUM FEATURES
Five Minute Journal App offers an optional monthly or yearly subscriptions with free trials or lifetime license.
Here's what you get when you unlock the Premium:
– Photos and Video: Capture and view your magical moments with a daily photo or video. Attach media to any of your daily prompts.
– Personalized Practice: Create your own custom questions, tailored to your mood and goals.
– Space for Notes: Clear your thoughts and write freely in the new notes section.
– Mood tracker: Check in with yourself, express how you feel, and gain insights into how your emotions influence your days.
– Look Back Reminders: Get reminded of your memories with the “On this Day” feature.
– Timeline Photo View: See a photographic timeline view of all your daily photos.
– Widget: Add a thoughtful Five Minute Journal widget to your home screen.
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In-Apps
Lifetime Access
$129.99
Annual Subscription
$49.99
Monthly Subscription
$5.99
Annual Journaling Premium
$49.99
1 month Journaling Premium
$12.49
Monthly Subs (existing users)
$6.49
Annual Subscr (existing users)
$31.99
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5 Minute Journal FAQ
Is 5 Minute Journal free?
Yes, 5 Minute Journal is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
Is 5 Minute Journal legit?
⚠️ Warning: Multiple users of 5 Minute Journal have mentioned scam or fraud. Investigate thoroughly before using this app.
Thanks for the vote
How much does 5 Minute Journal cost?
5 Minute Journal has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is 40.99 $.
This app is frustratingly getting worse with time. It used to be simple and highly functional (and subscription-free). In their quest to add more features, they’ve made the basic journaling process more complicated. There are long-standing bugs, like blurry images in the timeline, that don’t get fixed. There is no support for journaling on a Mac.
I wish it was available in mac
The layout looks great, but I wish the app is also available in mac format. So accessibility is available in all platforms.
My journal vanished
I purchased and used this journal, I like this journal. I sent to pick it up again after having been away for awhile and I’m locked out, unable to reset my password or open a new account. The app is basically useless now. I heard they charge you now too, but I wouldn’t know - can’t even get that far. Not what it promises… feel pretty violated as I had a whole journal that has just disappeared 😢
SUBSCRIPTION BASED
I was told about this to try and help me get better. Im not about to pay 150+ after tax for a glorified notebook/mood tracker to get away from endless subscription, as if there aren’t others that can provide the services. Yikes.
Good but…
I would love to switch to this app, but having been invested in Day One since 2013, I have to decline as there is no way to import another journal app into this one.
If you want people to come from other journal apps you have to offer an import feature.
I have thousands of entries and it make them all pointless to switch to this one.
Cloud Sync Failed!
I’ve been a happy customer for the past year since I purchased this. The past 2 days, however, my journal is no longer sync’ing and my data is gone!! I’ve used the contact link in the app itself to send a screen shot of the error (as the error indicates) and no one is bothering to answer me (or even acknowledge that they’ve received my note). Is anyone there?? Are you still supporting this thing??
$5-10 for a real paper journal $50 PER YEAR?
I’d be willing to pay a one time fee possibly up to 19.99 but upon seeing the sheer volume amount of people complaining about how the app used to be this pay once style and is now pay per view style…..I read the intro, saw the subscription price and put my mind in a logical philosophical stance. More expensive than paper bound? Are you for real? How gullible are customers? How greedy are developers? I deleted this as quick as it was to install. For $100 you can own (for life) personal meditation videos that you always has access to.
Love it
I love this app! Can’t wait for the laptop version!!!! Plzzzz 😁
Bait and switch app-stay away!
There should be something that can be instituted that can prevent such developers fleecing customers by paying them pay for the product i.e full features of the app and then flip the service model to an annual subscription without offering existing customers the benefit of the purchase that was already committed! Stay away from these scammers.
Do not buy it’s a scam
I cannot believe I fell for this and that Apple is allowing this to happen on their platform. I paid for the app. Now to be able to continue to use the app I have to pay $31.99 per year. The app should be free if you need to pay a yearly subscription to use it. And it feels particularly gross that a company called “Intelligent Change” would take advantage of this self help industry in this way. You are better off just writing in your notes app with all the same prompts. Extremely disappointed.